Center Officially Inagurated at Columbia's Low Rotunda

Tue, 2015-10-06

Columbia celebrated the launch of the Deepak and Neera Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies, an event that convened elected officials, policymakers, academics, and private-sector leaders at Low Library.

Arun Jaitley, India’s minister for finance, gives keynote remarks. Other speakers include Arun Kumar Singh, Ambassador of India to the United States; University Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, director of the new center; and Dean Merit E. Janow of Columbia SIPA. The center was made possible thanks to generous gifts from Deepak and Neera Raj and other supporters.

Faculty achievement awards were presented to:

Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Department of Art History and Archaeology, ColumbiaPonisseril Somasundaran, LaVon Duddleson Krumb Professor of Mineral Engineering, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, ColumbiaArvind Panagariya, Jagdish N. Bhagwati Professor Indian Political Economy, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia

Columbia
SIPA celebrates the launch of the Deepak and Neera Raj Center on Indian
Economic Policies, an event that convened elected officials,
policymakers, academics, and private-sector leaders at Low Library.

Arun Jaitley, India’s minister for finance, gives keynote remarks.
Other speakers include Arun Kumar Singh, Ambassador of India to the
United States; University Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, director of the
new center; and Dean Merit E. Janow of Columbia SIPA.

The center was made possible thanks to generous gifts from Deepak and Neera Raj and other supporters.

- See more at:
https://sipa.columbia.edu/news-center/video/sipa-celebrates-new-deepak-and-neera-raj-center-on-indian-economic-policies#sthash.SOM2ADtc.dpuf

Columbia
SIPA celebrates the launch of the Deepak and Neera Raj Center on Indian
Economic Policies, an event that convened elected officials,
policymakers, academics, and private-sector leaders at Low Library.

Arun Jaitley, India’s minister for finance, gives keynote remarks.
Other speakers include Arun Kumar Singh, Ambassador of India to the
United States; University Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, director of the
new center; and Dean Merit E. Janow of Columbia SIPA.

The center was made possible thanks to generous gifts from Deepak and Neera Raj and other supporters.

- See more at:
https://sipa.columbia.edu/news-center/video/sipa-celebrates-new-deepak-and-neera-raj-center-on-indian-economic-policies#sthash.SOM2ADtc.dpuf

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